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Can Johnson afford to go to the polls while Brexit hasn't been completed? If they remove the whip from Tory rebels they no longer have a majority.

That makes it easier for parliament to prevent no deal as would be rebels are no longer constrained by party allegiances.

A GE leads to Tories suffering from Brexit Party gains and the big JC ends up in No.10 backed by the SNP.

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25 minutes ago, ewerk said:

Can Johnson afford to go to the polls while Brexit hasn't been completed? If they remove the whip from Tory rebels they no longer have a majority.

That makes it easier for parliament to prevent no deal as would be rebels are no longer constrained by party allegiances.

A GE leads to Tories suffering from Brexit Party gains and the big JC ends up in No.10 backed by the SNP.

 

Polls have the Tories well ahead of everyone else on 33% as things stand. Labour are on 22%, LDs, 21%. Brexit Party neutered back to 12%.

 

Johnson has done what he needed to in order to defeat that threat.

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The polls also had Theresa May's Tory party on 46% when she called the last election.

I think the polls are going to be incredbily fluid given what's about to happen in the very near future and any Tory lead will fade.

But it's impossible to predict anything with much certainty at the moment.

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The GE gambit was that Boris sets the date for post October thus ensuring No Deal and running the election as the man who not only delivered Brexit, but also the one who knows how to steer us into pastures new. At least according to a number of the political commentators.

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17 minutes ago, Rayvin said:

The GE gambit was that Boris sets the date for post October thus ensuring No Deal and running the election as the man who not only delivered Brexit, but also the one who knows how to steer us into pastures new. At least according to a number of the political commentators.

Well exactly, which is why it's very worrying that Corbyn appeared to support the idea this morning.

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2 minutes ago, ewerk said:

Well exactly, which is why it's very worrying that Corbyn appeared to support the idea this morning.

 

Yeah, this is the terrifying possibility with Labour. They need to resist that GE no matter what, and yet we all know they'll dive in, get destroyed in the GE, Corbyn resigns and none of it matters anymore because all that's left for whoever takes over to 'oppose' the government on is whether or not the poor have the right to food.

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On secondment and to answer Rayvin’s question, (it’s data analysis anyway from my POV) but he should know that, in government, you don’t need a strategy to have a strategy team 

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13 minutes ago, Alex said:

On secondment and to answer Rayvin’s question, (it’s data analysis anyway from my POV) but he should know that, in government, you don’t need a strategy to have a strategy team 

 

When it’s all over are you going to do a TT exclusive expose on the innner workings of Boris’s Brexit?? :D

 

 

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25 minutes ago, Alex said:

I’m currently down in Whitehall working on the EU Exit Strategy team. It’s funny because it’s true 

So you’re the one who has been deliberately fucking it all up. 

Excellent work, Agent Alex.

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So after Johnson is defeated tomorrow he’ll push for a GE on Wednesday for 14th October. No guarantee at all that he can get 2/3 of MPs on board for that.

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